Kitchen Notes!

On Tuesday night I wanted to make a meal that my grandma took great pleasure in showing me how to make back when I was about 9 years old. I still remember very vividly the first time her and I made that meal. I don't have the actual recipe but I could recall most of the ingredients and the process. Just to seek further help I decided to look up other recipes that are similar to get an idea concerning measurements and all that. Honestly why did I bother to look through other recipes? Sometimes I cook with a recipe. But even when I do have a recipe I rarely follow it completely. And in this case I printed off a recipe started to organize my ingredients in the kitchen to begin the meal then asked myself what I was doing? Who needs a recipe? Just attempt it from memory as best as you can. The meal turned out rather well. It will be better next time I choose to make it since I made notes on measurements this time.

Another kitchen note, our new place has a smoke detector on the ceiling at the entrance to the kitchen. Not brilliant placement if you ask me. Last night I set the smoke detector off for the 2nd or 3rd time. Not sure how I did it since nothing burned while I was cooking dinner. Here's the best part when you set off one smoke detector all the smoke detectors in the apartment go off in unison. Obviously they are wired together. Just imagine the sound of more than one smoke detector blaring at one time. Yikes! Simon sticks around but tends to give me fearful glances when the smoke detectors are blaring. Cody is no where in sight. I think he runs to my room and gets under the bed. I just know he disappears until the ear piercing noise has ended. Last night as I was running around doing all I could to help the situation I couldn't help but notice little Simon sitting there looking at me appearing as a shrinking violet. Once the awful noise concluded Simon still sat there so I couldn't help but take a pic. Notice how he's sitting, both legs to one side. Cute!